Burkina Faso struck a late equaliser to earn a 1-1 draw against Nigeria in their Group C African Cup of Nations clash at the Mbombela Stadium on Monday night.

Emmanuel Emenike opened the scoring midway through the first half but substitute Alain Traore netted the equaliser deep into injury time after the Nigerians had been reduced to ten men.

The Super Eagles should have taken the lead in the 12th minute as Ahmed Musa squared the ball to find Brown Ideye inside the penalty area but directed his shot over the bar from close range.

Three minutes later Emenike delivered a teasing cross from the right towards the far post but Ideye headed wide when he could’ve left the ball for Elderson Echiejile who was lurking behind him.

Then in the 17th minute Burkina Faso were almost gifted a goal as Joseph Yobo lost possession to Jonathan Pitroipa, but in the end Wilfried Dah could only fire against the side netting.

The deadlock was eventually broken six minutes later as Emenike sneaked ahead of two defenders to nudge the ball past the advancing goalkeeper following a neat flick from Ideye.

Burkina Faso threatened to equalise in the 32nd minute as a freekick was played into the box but Djakaridja Kone and Aristide Bance got in each other’s way as they looked to pull the trigger.

Then three minutes into the second half Moumoni Dagano should have levelled matters when he was picked out by a good cross from Jonathan Pitroipa, but he failed to connect with his head and the ball deflected off his shoulder.

The Burkina Faso striker did manage to hit the target in the 63rd minute, only to be denied by a decent save from Victor Enyeama, who went down quickly to tip his shot wide of the post.

Two minutes later substitute Ikechukwu Uche squandered a great chance to extend Nigeria’s lead as he sliced his shot wide after controlling the ball well inside the area.

Then in the 74th minute the Super Eagles were reduced to ten men as Efe Ambrose was given his marching orders following his second bookable offence.

Six minutes later Uche had yet another opportunity to secure maximum points with a second goal when he was put through by Mikel Obi, but this time he blasted his shot over the crossbar from close range.

Nigeria were punished in the dying moments of the match as Pitroipa cut the ball back for Alain Traore to side-foot home from the centre of the box to claim a valuable point for the Stallions.

This super eagle cannot fly at all. I wonder why they have to allow the ball to be played in their own half most of the time.

Raphael

Joseph Yobo should be benched for the rest of the tournament as he has lost form greatly. If not, he could derail the Eagles in South Africa. I was shocked that Keshi took him to South Africa. I hope someone can tell Keshi to bench Yobo ithrough the fiesta.. Captain my foot!

Akindele Ogundipe

It was not we Nigerians expected of the Eagles.We are likely to beback home after th group
matches.If all Keshi went to Faro in Portugal for the long camping was the lack lustre exhibiton
of mediocrity Nigeria should be looking for better coach than Keshi.The saviour we are expecting is yet to come.

Wesley

This is the worst super eagles team in any major tournament thus far since 1994, the coach Keshi lacks the technical knowledge, he wated a year plus rebuilding, he better resign as a coach, and go educate and upgrade his football technique and standard

Be patient,Sper Eagles will still deliver ,let’s be hopeful& be praying for them,please

true tallk

Now you have agreed with me , when i said that keshi was questionable. a good coach should be able to buld his tearm around a utility , quality and inteligent player,wish he keshi did not do, Osaze and martins are that type of players we have in nigeria playing abroad now. this two players are playing in the two best leaque in the world,on regular basis and they score goals almost in every match in they play, expecialy osaze.I knew keshi will not take eagles anywhwere wen i saw his list of players, i do not mean that all the players are bad, but he make a big minstake by having a grudge angainst his best players for nothing sake. the team that are outsanding in this afcon are tearms that feature their best , all nigerians knew that this not our best eagles.those who said that it was a good thing for not calling osaze and martins should come out now to defend keshi. bukinafaso disgrace eagles with just two players , traore and jonathan. keshi have no game plans, he lack technicallity.my advice for osaze and martins is that they should stay away from eagles and focus on their career. let keshi handle his problem, because he took osaze issue too personal without any reasonable reason.secondly, Yobo is not surpose to be in this nations cup, he is old and not inform anymore, musa is a club player Obonabana gave a good account of himself . why did keshi have to remove emenike for uche? emenike is better than uche now according to african power playing style, he should have remove musa and draft emenike to left wing.

eagles first eleven should have been: Eyeaman, ambrose, obonabana, echiejile,apam, mikel, igiebor, emenike, martins,Osaze, moses. Let look at the name of some good players that keshi never call to camp, mike eneramo, ekigho ehiosu.amongst. if you are doubt of all the players i mention here, go to youtube and check .what excuse will keshi give us? you got all you wanted to present a solid squared keshi.in a country of almost two hundred millions , is this what you called the best keshi? u na doooooooooooooooooo, NFF dey wait for keshi.

joel ojo

Our Eagle refuse to fly when it matter most ,
Keshi too fuck up. every good coach paraded his best 11 in the open match .
I was expecting Keshi to substitute that guy that get 2 yellow card but he waited for his doomed .
the center referee is not qualify to refer any match at all.
Anyway all hope never lost .Keshi should go to drawing board amend his lapses

Please spare us this gist about Osaze. While he was there last edition did eagle even qualify for the tournament. We don’t know how to appreciate effort but we can apprciate the fact that burkina faso got a draw. Tell me what made you feel Nigerians are super humans.

Let’s pray for them, our prayer is very important. God help nigeria to win afcon trophy o. That is my own belief.

fjk

am sorry 4 u all Nigerians ‘cos u want an instant impossible miracle u can never achieve. PLEEEEASSSEE— leave Keshi n the boys alone.give him more time to build a solid team of our dream.Rome was not built in a day.it took Clemence Westerhof more than 5 solid years to produce d best team we ever had after trial/errors n experimentations.THE WORST MISTAKE the NFF will do is to sack Keshi n the team bcos of not meeting their target,which means we are back to square one.let d boys continue to play 2gether, learn from their mistakes then,they’ll come out smoking with time.SPAIN is d best team in d world today bcos the coach n the boys have been playing together intact for years not minding the mistakes and the result and winning at all cost.MAN U is one of d best club in d world today bcos the COACH is part/parcel n life partner of that team for ages.pleeeeeesssseee NIGERIANS forget about winning at all cost syndrome ,lets give KESHI some years program of building a ‘team of our pride’ with raw talents.

olanrewaju joel

9Ija na u go say hossana no u go say killam. weda dem do gud or not how much dem go share una for d bilion wey federal govt waste on dis BIAFRA 11 abi na BOKO 11 bcos dis 1 no bi 9ija 11 o.
To be frank this just not the best. Actually only a handful nigerian players are doing good in Europe. lets have five yrs moratorium on international competitions of aall kind and start rebuilding all team from youth level in all sports.
We cant afford wastage of scarce resources. can you imagine how many kilometers of roads the money expended on Featherless Eagles can build or repair.i tell things fall apart the day we started this demoncrazy of a thing.
Stop praying for eagles its like testing God when u pray not to die and for blessing you still pray foe these pregnant eagles to win matches na wah oo.